>Why am I getting two totally different responses from my mail server
>when I telnet in? This one, below, is what I get when I telnet in from
>my network...
>
>220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server todhunter.com (IMail 6.05 88820-1)
That is the correct one, generated by IMail.
>And this is what I get when I telnet in from the outside, dialed up to a
>local ISP..Len is right..it doesn't even look like it's the same mail
>server.
>
>220 SMTP service ready
That's definitely, positively not IMail. It looks like a broken firewall
(a mail server is supposed to response with "220 hostname ...", but IMail
does it wrong too, so don't worry too much that the firewall is broken).
>I am telnetting into the same machine! Same port, same everything.
It isn't the same machine.
You are using the same IP, but either they are being routed to different
machines, or the firewall is interfering.
Try telneting to port 110 (POP3), and see if it says "IMail" in the
greeting. If so, the packets are being routed correctly, but the firewall
(or something else) is intercepting the SMTP traffic.
-Scott
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